HEROES OF '76 LIGHT HORSE HARRY LEE CAMP
Woody Bentley, Commander
Commander's Message
August 2010
Brethren: While the summer is hot and activities seem slow, work still goes on to assist our Old Dominion 364 Chapter and the Light Horse Harry Lee Camp, Heroes of ’76. I encourage each of you to make a special effort to identify fellow Masons who are eligible or interested in membership as well as helping me identify prospective candidates to become Rekruits. Our Masonic order and the related camp offer a great deal to our military comrades. Let us all make an effort to give more of them an opportunity to be members.
Our last Bivouac on June 30 was a great success. Despite our limited numbers, Les Albers did a great job of demonstrating the Building of the Flag while we discussed ways to make the ceremony more impressive. Les provided the dinner of “subs” which were excellent. The dress was casual, in keeping with the weather and the fact that we had no candidate for Rekruit. This is disappointing as we have not initiated a new Rekruit in several meetings. This partly appears to be a result of insufficient recruiting for members of OD 364. We must all renew our efforts in that regard.
We continued the tradition of issuing the special LHHL Camp pin for wear on the Tricorn. These can only be awarded for actual attendance at a LHHL Heroes bivouac. These were made by incoming National President Harry Sanders during my first tenure as Commander, and he did a beautiful job.
Please remember that one of our primary purposes is to put on Americanism and Bridge of Light ceremonies for adult and youth groups. Remain alert for any possible opportunity to present a program to a group of which you are a member or know about. I would also appreciate any Hero who will volunteer to be called this year to let me know. We seem to have a few loyal souls who show up every time, and we need to have a large pool of volunteers.
Les Albers and I are developing a program for school visits to Collingwood where we will present an approximately two hour Americanism program. We will need uniformed Heroes to present this program once we have it developed. It will be a fun opportunity to participate with elementary school children. Give one of us a call if you are interested.
Please feel free to call me at 703-281-7489 or email me at ciddad@aol.com with any questions or suggestions.
Woody Bentley
Camp Commander
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